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25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-18 Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing Question not identified.
25-460 Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale 1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the decision of its lower court to ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property and the su…
25-5775 Edward Walton v. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-vaccine due-process eighth-circuit executive-order genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner's Due Process claim without remanding for factual development on the COVI…
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Amici (22)Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-364 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25A319 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-19 Application Amici (1) biological-sex equal-protection executive-order gender-identity passport-policy sex-designation Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits the government to require passport sex designations based solely on biological sex without recognizing gen…
24A1106 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-16 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act executive-order federal-workforce injunction reduction-in-force separation-of-powers Whether the President possesses constitutional and statutory authority to implement a reduction in force and reorganization of the federal workforce t…
24-7183 James Little v. United States District of Columbia 2025-05-12 Denied Relisted (5)IFP appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing Should this Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case for further consideration of the government's pending motion to d…
24A885 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete Amici (1) article-iii-standing birthright-citizenship executive-authority executive-order preliminary-injunction universal-injunction Whether district courts may issue universal preliminary injunctions that enjoin enforcement of an Executive Order as to non-parties and States lacking…
23-1207 Assassination Archives and Research Center, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2024-05-10 Denied Response Waived cia-records dc-circuit declassification executive-order executive-orders first-circuit foia-request jfk-assassination kennedy-assassination national-security Whether the CIA may refuse to search and disclose its operational records
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional?
23-6247 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ai-governance civil-rights constitutional-transfer due-process executive-order executive-power impeachment presidential-election presidential-power separation-of-powers transfer-of-power white-house-authority Can a peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executiv…
23-5932 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox Does the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for only some) violate the Constitution?
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
23-60 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 GVR Relisted (9) administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot
22-1248 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficient t…
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR Relisted (8) administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
22-1137 Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived cancel-culture civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-action due-process equal-protection ethnic-holiday executive-order injury-in-fact redressability standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit
22-7432 Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in treating the case as subject to harmless error analysis when the error was structural in nature
22-816 The School of the Ozarks, Inc., dba College of the Ozarks v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing enforcement executive-order fair-housing-act gender-identity notice-and-comment regulatory-enforcement standing Whether a notice-and-comment violation, on its own, can establish Article III standing for a regulated entity within the applicable zone of interests
22-455 Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. v. Rolandette Glenn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) covid-19-pandemic executive-order federal-direction federal-officer-removal federal-supervision food-supply national-emergency national-food-supply state-court-removal state-law-claims Whether a private actor that assists the federal government in securing the national food supply during a national emergency, under extensive federal …
22-5702 Henry Clay Smith, III v. Alabama Alabama 2022-09-28 Denied IFP alabama-court-of-criminal-appeals circuit-court civil-rights criminal-appeals due-process executive-order judicial-review mandates standing Whether the record shows that the two (2) circuit court cases have been validated by an executive order from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, as…
21-1542 Mill Bay Members Association, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived equitable-estoppel executive-order federal-government general-allotment-act indian-lands land-allotment trust trust-period Whether equitable estoppel applies against the federal government as trustee for Indian lands
21-1469 Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause?
21-1413 James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-order first-amendment friends-of-the-earth-v-laidlaw mootness-doctrine roman-catholic-diocese-of-brooklyn-v-cuomo state-of-emergency mootness-doctrine
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Does the Executive Order violate the substantive due process rights of New York City public-school teachers whose sole employer is the DOE by preventi…
21-6438 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-11-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing Is a class of convicted habitual felons that have completed their lawful maximum sentences entitled to immediate and unconditional release in order to…
21-6170 Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request
21-5877 Brian J. Neary v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law age-discrimination article-1 employment-discrimination executive-order federal-excepted-service federal-hiring-authority legislative-authority pathways-program separation-of-powers Has the Executive Branch breached the Separation-of-Powers principle?
21-5522 Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump Delaware 2021-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties Whether failure to serve the brief was fatal error
20-599 Hirsh Singh v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey New Jersey 2020-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process elections-clause executive-order freedom-of-information-act mail-in-voting standing state-powers Does the New Jersey Governor's Executive Order taking over the powers of the state legislature to make election related laws and the primary election …
20-482 Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the Sixth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot under Munsingwear
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgments granting writs o…
20-5565 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-interference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-order fifth-amendment first-amendment investigation-misconduct national-security standing Whether this case is frivolous
19-1283 James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order executive-powers liberty-deprivation liberty-rights property-rights public-health quarantine quarantine-restrictions standing Can the Governor legally deprive citizens of liberty and property rights and circumvent the statutory protections for quarantined individuals?